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The Delectable Negro - Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (Paperback)
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The Delectable Negro - Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (Paperback)
Series: Sexual Cultures
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Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda
Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism,
cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American
literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until
now Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored
or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized.
Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human
consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of
the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the
slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which
Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic
occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between
homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the
context of American literature and US slave culture. Utilizing many
staples of African American literature and culture, such as the
slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick
Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L.
Smith's slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous
articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century,
Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations,
gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both
European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger
for Black male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves
struggled not only against social consumption, but also against
endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them.
He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang
oral sex scene in Toni Morrison's Beloved, suggesting that even at
the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century,
we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black
male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption.
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